Author: Trini Rogando

When I was younger, I was very into Minecraft. The summer after 5th grade, 2016, the first summer I truly remember in full –…

In Papers Please, there’s a moment in the narrative where the player realizes that they, despite any personal goals external to the game, an—…

Through a pastel aesthetic, flowy dialogue that pops up when particular objects are highlighted, and a rudimentary inventory system to solve relatively simple drag-and-click…

In her poem “Nostos” (text below), Louise Glück writes:  There was an apple tree in the yard — this would have been forty years…

Why are people driven to fight? What impacts one’s choices towards the need to fight – how generational hatred propagates over time? Bastion, created…

In Gone Home, a classic young adult romance unravels in the context of a traditional horror movie house. Developed by Fullbright Company, and released…

Clue, made by Anthony E. Pratt Target Audience: Anyone, recommended for ages 8+ Platform: Played digitally on Amazon Luna – For this week’s Critical…

Introduction “This is a love story”, proclaims the trigger content warning screen as the game opens. Haunted by lilting piano melodies – us, the…

  Introduction What makes games accessible to play? What prompts players to think, to reason and search for meaning? Is this always the desired…

At a late-night time in Spilker, with the rest of the building largely empty, four friends and I took over a glass-walled conference room…

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The summer before college I was working my first full-time-ish job, and after getting home, tired, for many weeks, I’d go down to the…